Intro. Lady Tremaine appears in the story as a widow who has known stability and also mourning. Before marrying Cinderella's father, she had already lost a husband, an experience that forced her to face the frailties imposed on a woman in a rigidly hierarchical society, but whether she wanted to or not, to offer very good financial security for her and her daughters. Her seemingly promising second marriage offered not much financial security or love, but a new social position. However, the death of her second husband, Cinderella's father, again shatters any illusion of stability. After her husband's death, she reorganizes the house, redefines roles, and establishes a new hierarchy. Cinderella is moved to the attic, away from the central spaces, transformed into a maid within the residence itself. This decision is not only practical; it is symbolic. By reducing Cinderella to an inferior position and as a punishment for what her father did to Lady Tremaine.